Don't misunderstand, most of what I find online as a reference to it seems to agree with you, but if this was entirely true, why couldn't Japan keep...
It would look like large, empty grass fields, or modern cotton, soybean or corn fields. The only places that would really be similar are the sites...
A loaded cannon. In the middle of New York City. All this time. I was laughing hard at first, but then I had this mental image of a 1930's movie...
King Cotton is a High School buzzword. The reality was, Europe didn't need the south for cotton as Egpyt was producing the needed goods more locally...
Being taught the basics in school is one thing, but I think the school systems lie to us specifically because if the truth was taught, it would...
American losses always impact people during a war, but the thing you should be thinking about is the British losses. These are people you have to...
I believe the rifle was coming into vogue as the Revolution proceeded - expensive and not common, but still, I'm sure it had some impact on the war....
Sir, I would ask you to stop having such interesting family history as some of the other members (me, mostly) are getting slightly jealous....
That - that's the kind of personal history I love! Filing the firing pins alone could have put him at the greatest of personal peril and tortures,...
The vast majority of the ships who sailed against the British in the Revolution were privateers - and it's thought that upwards of 1500 of the ships...
I found a lovely article about the Niihau Incident - where a Japanese pilot from the attack on Pearl Harbor landed on the island of Niihau, won over...
If you're still around and still interested in showing it (I would dearly love to see it - I love more personal history behind photos, not just...
I was going to edit this into my previous post, but as it's lengthy and somewhat different than my previous opinions, I feel it warrants a separate...
I don't doubt they set up foundries, but could they really have set up enough and get enough production up to really hold their own, supply-wise?...
If I'm not mistaken, it was the US denying supply of steel to Japan during the earlier parts of World War II that really ticked them off. If they...
I'll go with The Battle of Bunker Hill. It took out a good deal of the British field staff, and was the encounter with the largest number of British...
Forest Frederick Edward Yeo-Thomas - the Germans called him "The White Rabbit." Amazing what he went through - brutal torture, multiple captures,...
It's my recollection that the Confederacy was trying to enlist English help in the war, with promises of trade of cotton (which England primarily got...
I partially agree with some of that sentiment regarding slavery being the cause, but it still stands out in my mind that at the time, people stood...
You can see the scars of the war all over the south, if you know where to look. There is still a good bit of resentment of Sherman's character, and...
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